Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Understanding Quotes
KnowledgeLimitationPerceptionUnderstanding We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
FocusGoalsLearningMotivationUnderstanding A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
CommunicationIntuitionLanguagePerceptionUnderstanding 'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.
HumilitySelf-awarenessUnderstandingWisdom True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
AwarenessCommunicationKnowledgeLearningUnderstanding Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
DepthMeaningTruthUnderstandingWisdom It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
AccuracyClarityCriticismDisciplineUnderstanding How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
AcceptanceFamilyInclusivityUnderstanding I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
ConnectionLoveUnderstanding Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also-if you love them enough.
EqualityHumanityRecognitionUnderstanding For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
ConnectionCreativityEmpathyExpressionUnderstanding No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
DangerFreedomLibertyUnderstandingZeal The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
FriendshipPerspectiveSelflessnessUnderstanding There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
HarmonyPeaceReligionToleranceUnderstanding I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
ForgivenessHumilityHumorToleranceUnderstanding Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
OpennessPerspectiveSpiritualityUnderstanding God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
InsightLimitationPerceptionUnderstanding We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
EmpathyEqualityRaceSelf WorthUnderstanding Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
CollaborationJusticeRelationshipsRespectUnderstanding I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.
GrowthHumilityLearningUnderstanding Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ArtEmotionThoughtUnderstanding The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
BeliefCause and EffectChangePerspectiveUnderstanding Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
CommunicationListeningNon-verbal cuesPerceptionUnderstanding The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
DiscoveryIntuitionOrderUnderstanding There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Higher PrinciplesHuman PotentialLimitationNatural LawsUnderstanding Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
CreationHuman NatureImaginationMythologyUnderstanding We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
